SonicAM19
06-20-2006, 07:17 PM
Is there any easy way to bid on the keyword level, without just bidding huge amounts for position 1 as MSN suggests? We are new to Adcenter, and have not been accepted for API access. I am finding it extremely difficult to: 1) adjust bids in many different orders relatively quickly & 2) base my bidding on data from previous avg. position & impressions, not "estimates" dictated by adcenter.
Mel66
06-21-2006, 11:37 AM
Keyword bid management is one of my biggest headaches with AdCenter. Not only is there no easy way within the UI to make bid changes across multiple orders, but the MSN API doesn't seem to work right, creating headaches if you use a bid management software like Atlas (which we use). Somehow the API tells Atlas our keywords are at #1, but when I log in and look in AdCenter, we're #4 or 5. And it takes about 5 different steps to even get to this info in AdCenter, since you can't set date or other options on the initial summary screen - you have to go to each individual order and go to "manage keywords" to see your current position. This is obviously no good. And the keyword estimation thing is weird, too.
No suggestions, just commisseration!
Melissa